Xfetch: Download YouTube Video and Audio Like a Hacker

Wellyington
6 min readNov 30, 2023

Greetings, fellow Python enthusiasts! Today, we embark on an exciting journey of creating a versatile application named Xfetch using the Kivy framework. This application allows users to seamlessly download either video or audio content from YouTube, wrapped in a clean and user-friendly interface. Before we dive into the nitty-gritty details, a word of caution: Xfetch is designed for educational purposes only, and its usage may potentially infringe upon copyrights and YouTube’s terms of service.

Getting Started: Prerequisites

Before we embark on our coding adventure, let’s ensure we have all the necessary tools in our toolkit. Xfetch relies on several Python libraries, each serving a specific purpose. Here’s a quick rundown:

  • certifi: Root Certificates.
  • charset-normalizer: URL normalization library.
  • decorator: Decorator module for Python.
  • docutils: Text processing system for reStructuredText.
  • idna: Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA).
  • imageio: Python library for reading and writing images.
  • imageio-ffmpeg: FFMPEG plugin for ImageIO.
  • Kivy: Open-source Python library for developing multitouch…

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Wellyington

I am a computer scientist, developer and musician based in Spain!